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FPL Group and Duke Energy Pledge 10-year, $600M+ Commitment to Transition Fleets to PHEVs and EVs

Green Car Congress

Duke Energy and FPL Group will begin this transition in the coming years with the goal that 100% of all new fleet vehicles will be plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) or plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) by 2020. Currently, the only near-term options for available PEV supply are sedans, minivans, vans and a few bucket trucks.

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Analysis: What’s the Best Way to Market EVs?

Clean Fleet Report

They did it because they wanted to sell luxury sedans, and in America, people thought of Toyotas as inexpensive, reliable small cars. Geo renamed the Nova as the Geo Prizm and added other models jointly produced with Isuzu and Suzuki in North America and Japan, but separated them from its “American” cars. America doesn’t get the ID.3,

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President Obama Announces 48 Projects to Receive $2.4B in Grants for Next-Generation of Batteries and Electric Vehicles; To be Combined with $2.4B in Industry Cost-Share

Green Car Congress

General Motors Corporation. Saft America, Inc. Toda America, Inc. $35. General Motors Corporation. Magna E-Car Systems of America, Inc. $40. KEMET Corporation. Develop, validate, and deploy 220 advanced plug-in hybrid electric pickups and minivans. Brownstown, MI. Cells will be from LG Chem, Ltd.

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2021 Jeep Wrangler 4xe: The legendary SUV brand’s first plug-in hybrid

Charged EVs

But for North America, it’s the big dog, the quintessential Jeep 4×4. That’s not surprising—the Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid, the company’s only previous plug-in hybrid, is a well-executed PHEV with an EPA-rated 32 miles of usable electric range that retains all the virtues of the Pacifica minivan. The 4xe’s 17.3

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

About CalCars Plug-In Hybrids FAQ How to Get a PHEV Where PHEVs are Carmakers Say. Our PRIUS+ Project Photos PHEV Resources Global Warming Take Action News and Events Contact Us How Carmakers are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity If you ask, "have major auto-makers come around on PHEVs?",

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How do Chinese language EV makers roll out unutilized merchandise so temporarily?

Baua Electric

Lately, it sells 3 top rate EVs – 001 taking pictures brake, 009 MPV (minivan), and the original member of Zeekr’s population – the compact SUV Zeekr X. The corporate delivered its 100,000th automobile on April nineteenth, and as of June, their cumulative deliveries in China reached 120,581 EVs, in keeping with CarNewsChina knowledge.

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DOE Award Supports Largest Single Deployment of EVs and Infrastructure Yet; Up to 5,000 Nissan LEAF EVs in 5 Regions

Green Car Congress

Lead grant applicant Electric Transportation Engineering Corporation (eTec), a subsidiary of ECOtality, received a $99.8 Scott Becker vice president, Legal and General Counsel, Nissan North America. Projects include: $70 million to Chrysler to develop, validate and deploy 220 plug-in hybrid electric pickups and minivans.

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